Help:Formatting

You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''

Text formatting markup

Description

You type

You get

applies anywhere

Italic text

''italic''

italic

Bold text

'''bold'''

bold

Bold and italic

'''''bold & italic'''''

bold & italic

Escape wiki markup

<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>

no ''markup''

only at the beginning of the line

Headings of

different sizes

==level 1=====level 2=======level 3=========level 4=====

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Horizontal rule

----

Bullet list

* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds

one

two

three

three and one-third

three and two-thirds

Numbered list

# one
# two<br>spanning several lines<br>without breaking the numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two

one

twospanning several lineswithout breaking the numbering

three

three point one

three point two

Mixture of bulleted and numbered lists

# one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two

one

two

two point one

two point two

Definition list

;Definition
:item 1
:item 2

Definition

item 1

item 2

Preformatted text

preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line

preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line

Paragraphs

Mediawiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag <br />.

HTML

Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.

More advanced formatting

Beyond the basic text formatting markup shown above, there are some more advanced formatting tricks: